Excerpt from Cory's Ancient Fragments of the Several Carthaginian, Babylonian, Egyptian and Other Authors

The work of which we here present to the public a new edition, was published by the late Isaac Preston Cory nearly half a century ago. After a few years a new and enlarged edition was called for, which was so well received by the public that it has long been out of print. The book being still in great demand by students of antiquity, we have resolved on meeting the wishes of the public by issuing a new edition. We have caused the translation to be revised, and have added introductions to the several fragments, together with notes and explanations supplied from the recently-interpreted hieroglyphic and cuneiform texts, and from the researches of competent scholars. We have thus sought to make the student acquainted with the various sources of information which have been discovered since this collection of fragments first appeared, and to throw some light from the mounds of Nineveh and the temples of Egypt upon these relics of the long-forgotten past.

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